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...blown-up embassy, the ruined barracks, the ship with a blackened hole at the waterline. This time the first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike (?Am I seeing this??), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition??the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake...
Pentagon friends say Powell was initially "blown off course" by Bush's basic principle of anything-but-Clinton. "If Clinton was pushing hard for it," says J. Stapleton Roy, ambassador to China for Bush Sr., "their instinct was to pull way back." But every Administration learns--often the hard way--that foreign policy inevitably snaps back from campaign rhetoric to the well-plowed tracks of enduring interests. And it was Powell who bore the brunt of the President's education...
...votes are in, but insiders are blown away by how many employees Immelt seems to know, though he's worked in only three of the company's 10 main businesses and never overseas. "I've seen him under fire and under grace, and his instincts are all right on the button," Welch said from his vacation home on Nantucket, where he's getting in some golf before his much anticipated book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, hits stores next week. "My report card comes out in another five years, when Jeff has taken this company to a whole new level...
...Pentagon friends say Powell was initially "blown off course" by Bush's basic principle of anything-but-Clinton. "If Clinton was pushing hard for it," says J. Stapleton Roy, ambassador to China for Bush Sr., "their instinct was to pull way back." But every Administration learns?often the hard way?that foreign policy inevitably snaps back from campaign rhetoric to the well-plowed tracks of enduring interests. And it was Powell who bore the brunt of the President's education...
That's a worry many boomers bear for themselves and their parents. And they worry about a range of mental incapacity that can begin far short of full-blown dementia. Your infirm father may no longer be capable of managing investments, but he may do fine balancing his checkbook. How will it be decided whether folks like him--and sooner or later, folks like us--have lost the capacity to drive a car or consent to surgery...